>> Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering Boomi World 2018, brought to you by Dell Boomi. >> Welcome back to theCUBE, I'm Lisa Martin Live at Boomi World 2018 at The Encore in Las Vegas. Been here all day, had a lot of great chats. We're excited to welcome to theCUBE for the first time a couple of gents from Hathority Implementation Partner of Dell Boomi, Philip Bernick, PhD, Principal, and Human-Centered Technologist, aka Technology Wonk. >> I go by both. >> It does say on your card, I think that's fantastic. And Vishwan Annam, MBA and principal technology architect at Hathority. Guys, welcome to theCUBE. >> Yes, thank you. >> Thank you for having us Lisa. >> So Hathority has been an implementation partner with Dell Boomi for several years now, congratulations yesterday on winning the Innovation Partner of the Year. Philip, you had an opportunity to talk yesterday at the partner summit with CTO Michael Morton, talk to us a little bit about that and about this Innovation Partner of the Year award, that's a big title. >> It is, and we're really excited to be able to do really interesting things with Boomi. It's more than just an integration platform, it really let's us do a lot of things with devices. IOT is coming to the mainstream because now we have infrastructure that will support it. It's a lot of data, it needs a big, fat pipe. We need gigabit networks in order to move it all around, to get it to the people who need to make decisions or to get it to systems who are making decisions for us, the Dell Boomi atom let's us do that and we've got it running on little tiny devices like Raspberry Pies and we can put it on other Edge devices and routers so we've done some micro services for cities that are interested in improving their smartness. >> Excellent. >> So yeah, we're excited. >> Vishwam, tell us about, for those of our viewers who haven't heard of Hathority, tell us a little bit about what you guys do, who you are, where you're located. >> Sure, so we're a data integration company so we work with Dell Boomi in automating a lot of the data integration practices, so a lot of our customers, they're in all across the world and they're serving their different (mumbles). Just as there's airlines and the healthcare and smart cities, and some are like, you know, the gaming industry. So what we are doing is we are automating all of their work flows and connecting all of their systems in one place so that's where we are liberating. We're based in the greater Phoenix area so, and our employees are, some are here in the U.S., some are India, some are in U.K., so based on what the customers needs are like in Dell Boomi our, our consultants would work there so we are 35 in strength so far, our company. >> So about three or four years you've been in business, Dell Boomi, a number of things that came out this morning, I was up to hear numbers and statistics during the general session and Chris McNabb, CEO, talked about their adding five new customers every single day, they also were, I was reading this over the weekend, fifth year in a row strong leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for iPads, but they've come out today and said we are redefining the I in iPads. This is more than integration, it's more than integrating applications, you got to integrate data, news sources, existing sources, you got to integrate people and processings and trading networks with this new reimagination of the I to the intelligence. Philip, I'm curious, what does that signify to you about your partnership with Dell Boomi and what opportunities are you excited that this is going to open up for you? >> Well it says to me that they're excited about the same kinds of things that we're excited about so one of the things that we demonstrated, we have customers who are interested in lots of different technologies, yesterday they talked about three years ago IOT was the eyeroll, right, don't get a headache. This year it's Blockchain. But one of the demos we brought to Boomi World is a demo where we actually use Dell Boomi to integrate with Hyperledger, a Blockchain application, and on top of that we used Flow to produce the front end and so we can integrate across a variety of platforms and now we integrated into the Blockchain and our customers want these kinds of things. The Blockchain is interesting because it's immutable, it's auditable, and it's validated by all of the participants in a particular set of nodes in the Blockchain so, you know, it's an exciting technology. It's exciting because, not because of the tokenization, things like Bitcoin, but because it's a database that you can share, a ledger that we can share. >> Because one of the challenges that a lot of our customers run into is managing the data integrity when somebody sends the data, how reliable it is and whether there, is there any place in the middle that somebody's monitoring the data so those are the challenges that Blockchain would solve in guaranteeing the data delivery and the quality of it so those are kind of I that he was mentioning, you know, as part of integration, innovation and more of a, you know, new parts and transformation. >> We're really transforming. >> The data transformation in the digital world these days. >> So Blockchain, I often hear companies that might be integration companies that talk a lot about Blockchain and I kind of sit back and go I don't understand what your story is there. Talk to us about, cause it's a, you know, crypto Blockchain, huge buzzwords, talk to us exactly about what you guys do and what Dell Boomi is doing, I think they announced support for hyperledger fabric as well as Ethereum but-- >> Right. >> Help unpack that myth around Blockchain and what integrations role is in it. >> A lot of the confusion around Blockchain comes from things like Bitcoin so the interesting thing around Bitcoin is it was the first Blockchain and it's built around this idea of a token, the Bitcoin, right? And so what this ledger is keeping track of are these Bitcoin, but you can keep track of any sort of data on a Blockchain. You can contribute data of any sort to a, not the Bitcoin Blockchain, but Ethereum, for example, we can include software, we can include other sorts of data, you can include a healthcare record that is your healthcare record that you share only with individuals with whom you share part of your private key, right, but you own it and it's yours and it's always yours and you control it. But it's validated by all of the people who are participating in producing that Blockchain so it's decentralized but it's imutable and it's auditable so it guarantees integrity because unless all of the participants agree that a transaction took place, it didn't. So we ensure data integrity through the Blockchain. That's the interesting thing about it, for us. >> That's a major part of integration companies, because a lot of the technologies that we hear, Solaris is one of the messaging queuing systems that they presentate, so they're guaranteeing the delivery at the same time relabel messaging transmissions, streaming the data, and it's faster, reliable, and managing the full data usage. >> Here's a great use case, today is voting day. Many polling places no longer have paper ballots, so you cast your vote but you have no way to actually see the vote that you cast. If it were on a Blockchain, you could inspect your vote, but no body else could know how you voted. You could insure the fact your vote was entered into the Blockchain and count it in the way that you wanted it to be. >> That's a great example and relatable, so thanks for sharing that. So guys, Dell Boomi has, I think they said this morning, Chris McNabb, over 350 partners, you guys are one of them. They have a broad ecosystem. Embedded partners, implementation, GSIs. Talk to us about your partnership and how, as Boomi says, we want to be the transformation partner, and it is all about transformation, right? Especially in an enterprise that wasn't born in the cloud. It can't survive without, as the customer expectation drives, I want to be able to buy something from your physical store, maybe a partner store, online, Amazon, Zappos, whatnot and I expect as a customer to have a seamless experience. That's hard to do for a company that's maybe 20, 30 years old to transform. I'm thinking of omni-channel retailers as the example. How is your integration, pun intended, will Dell Boomi really helping customers transform their digital, IT, security, workforce, what goes through with that opportunity to transform? >> You know, the relationship between Dell Boomi and it's partners is really synergistic. I mean they provide a lot of support. There's really excellent training, there's excellent communication. There's marketing support, we share on projects in a variety of ways, we do jump starts. So we help teach people how to use Boomi in addition to helping Boomi folks teaching us how to use the new tools. There's a great community for providing feedback, for getting resources if there's something that we need to do that we don't know how to do. There's a huge community that shares, we all share connectors, right? We're building integration and a connector doesn't exist and we create a new connector, not the configuration of the connector itself, we share it. So that collaborative approach to doing business is really important to us and it reflects our companies ethos as we hope is also reflects Dell Boomi's ethos. >> We've been working in Boomi since 2012, so over the years like even though we were certified partners since 2015, we have been contributing to various channels, like the support or, like, the community channel, and contributing to the release planning as well, because we are the first line of defense from the customers, we know what the customers are expecting. So say they got Salesforce to implement it. So we as a system integrator, we come in and see what are the data points for the Salesforce. And say like user data, they want to build their contacts in there or any activities or sales data. So there are multiple systems that are feeding into Salesforce in this case. So we are the ones who are contributing to Dell Boomi. Okay, these are the features that we could consider. So because Salesforce a-walled in, just like Boomi, they launched a different watch list as well So as in Boomi, there is a different connector for Salesforce and Service Cloud and multiple layers in that so those are the unique cases that we are contributing to Dell, and obviously there, I mean, they take the feedback so from the partners like us where they see it as they work towards delivering with this. So one use case that we are working with some of out customers who have innovated, we have been asking Dell to build it, like, you know, and they were able to deliver it. There are, like, they want some reporting of it, so you transmit the data to one system to other, and they wanted to see okay how the data system was the source and the system was the destination and how this data was transmitted. So Boomi gave the real time visibility into those. So those are some kind of partnering opportunities like all the way from customer to the product so we are happy to be in the middle and contributing our part of it. >> That's one of the things that I've heard a lot today is that Boomi is listening, one of the great examples of that on stage this morning was Chris McNabb talking about the Dell Boomi employee onboarding solution. They actually did an internal survey earlier this year and found, whoa, this is really not an optimal process, and in implementing an onboarding solution to make that more streamline, to obviously, you know, you hire someone who's brilliant, you want to be able to get them up and running and innovating as fast as possible. I like they shared the feedback they got from their own employees and created a solution that they're now being able to deliver to the market. >> And there was another piece to that that was really interesting which is that they utilized their partner network in order to build solution, right? They didn't build all of it in house. >> You're right, they did talk about that. >> They reach out and partners, they work with partners in a variety of ways and we really, really appreciate that. >> Yeah, that listening, that synergy that you've both talked about was really apparent. So when we look at certain business initiatives, like onboarding or customer 360 or e-commerce, any favorite joint customer example that you've helped to integrate that has approached one of those daunting business initiatives, and worked with Hathority, and you're laughing, to really transform. >> They're all like that. >> Really interesting, yeah. Do you want to talk about it here? >> Give me one of your favorite examples. >> Share, well, share. >> Okay, so with some of our customers, and especially with some of our enterprise scale, so there are a lot of systems that are at stake for them because, you know, they want to have the digital transformation journey so the major one Dell Boomi contributes to is connecting all of the system, giving them their visibility so with, not only the point to point integrations, they also pull the real time integrations capability. So we're like, with this case, where the customer go into retail store and say they want to do something at the point of sale transaction, they want to purchase something, so there and you have the credit card transaction. I mean, those need to encrypt, I mean, we cannot wait for 10 minutes to get the data so that's where, you know, like Dell Boomi is scalable and it's robust in the sense that their response time is pretty quick. So it's on a real time basis. So a lot of these cases like, you know, with the Boomi that we are able to deliver it. You know, on the the integration side, APA side, and now with the EMB hedge, which is a master data hub, a new product from them within the last two years. We have been working with our customers implementing a master data hub as well as ManyWho, which is a Dell Boomi Flow which is amazing. Some of our customers, you know, with the APAs, like can you see the data? But with the Flow, you can visualize, these are the exact UI that you are seeing. How your data is getting in on the back end and then you can throw it out so, because these enterprise customers, especially on the business side if they're working with something, so they want to try it out, but you know, they don't want to learn, you know, programming to do that so that's when, like, Flow will, is already helping, we are already seeing the value of it with our customers. >> We've heard a little bit about that today as well, Flow and terms of the automation, but also how that will enable customers, there was a cute little video on their website that I saw recently which showed an example of Flow. Somebody bangs their car into a tree, gets out, and takes a photograph of the incident, uploads it to their insurance carrier app who then actually initiates the entire claim into process, and that's was to me a clear example of you have to go where the data is. Michael Dell says frequently there's a big boom at the edge, but if I'm in that scenario as a customer, I want to know, I don't care what's on the back end, I want to be able to get this initiated quickly and I thought that was a nice, kind of, example of how they're able to abstract that so that the customer experience can be superior than the competition. >> Absolutely, so that's where Boomi has something called run time engine, which is scalable, like you could install, like, you know, a smaller device like Raspberry Pie which is like, you know, just a mini computer. Or you you could install on the big switchboard itself, so this is a scalable so earlier, as Michael Dell was mentioning, the edge of computing. So you could install on a Gateway, which sits on the-- >> On a tree >> On a tree. (laughs) So you don't have to send all the data to cloud for processing so it's an amazing leap into the next distribution computing because, as you mentioned, the fast, the fastness of response time, you know. We don't have to wait for the cloud to respond so all the combinations and real time navigation's are happening within the Edge network itself so, we are all on the same, we have implemented the same solution so, which was one of the reason why we're the winner of Innovation Partner of the Year award. >> Well congratulations again for that gentlemen. Thank you so much for stopping by. >> Thank you. >> And sharing with our viewers a little bit about Hathority and what you guys are, how you really symbiotically innovating with Dell Boomi. Philip, Vishwam, thanks so much for your time today. >> Thank you for having us. >> Thank you, thank you for having us. >> My pleasure, we want to thank you for watching theCUBE. I'm Lisa Martin live from Boomi World 2018 in Las Vegas. 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